Karl E. Deckart

Soap Bubble Gallery

German photographer and artist Karl E. Deckart is known for his thorough, precise, and beautiful work both in photography through the microscope and with macro camera systems. This gallery of interference photographs made with soap films is a testament to both Deckart's skill as a photographer and his understanding of the physical phenomena that surround our everyday lives. Use the individual links for navigation to the macro photographs of interest.

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Soap Bubbles Image 1 - Spiraling from left to right across the screen, interference patterns display an dizzying array of first-order colors including blue, magenta, red, orange, and yellow.

Soap Bubbles Image 2 - Disrupted by a wave of tiny bubbles traveling from top to bottom, this pattern demonstrates increasing film thickness manifested in higher-order interference colors.

Soap Bubbles Image 4 - Like water dripping down a windowpane, several bubbles wind and twist as they make their way across the surface of a red and blue thin soap film. The large curl was created when the photographer moved his hand close to the wire frame, which resulted a disturbance in the film caused by air currents.

Soap Bubbles Image 5 - Tiny bubble streamers drop from the thin portion of a soap membrane down to variegated red and blue patterns having an increasing degree of thickness.

Soap Bubbles Image 6 - Featuring a dazzling display of interference colors set in an imaginative series of patterns, this disrupted soap film presents a spectrum of rainbow colors.

Soap Bubbles Image 7 - Currents and eddies of blue and indigo infiltrated with rivets of reflective white coloring, which indicate regions of high spectral interference, present a metallic look contrasted against a background of black.

Soap Bubbles Image 9 - This amazing photograph appears as if it could be a still shot that captured the very moment a single drop of water splashed into a pool of water before it was integrated into a body of tossing waves.

Soap Bubbles Image 11 - Appearing almost like an eerie alien landscape, this macro photograph captures the presence of a boundary between major differences in soap film thickness.

Soap Bubbles Image 12 - Tiny bubbles creep down the film from a semi-transparent blue gray background into a vertically variegated spectrum of color featuring golden yellow, crimson red, and royal blue.

Soap Bubbles Image 13 - Although not as vivid as many of the other soap film photographs, this image captures the serene beauty of a relatively undisturbed thin film.

Soap Bubbles Image 14 - If we had to name this image, it would be called "Nuclear Sunrise". The apparent explosion in the image was due to a larger drop of soap solution quickly falling from the top to the bottom of the soap film.

Soap Bubbles Image 16 - Miniature bubbles appear like stars against the black sky. Midway, swirls of water-colored blues give way to a cresting white sea form that could be rushing onto a dark sandy beach. This image is the favorite of most visitors.

Soap Bubbles Image 17 - A growing vortex of multiple colors is interlaced with a disturbance from tiny bubbles.